Pop punk band Fall Out Boy have decided to call on a shaman for their current U.S. tour to banish a curse that has been plaguing them. The band have been running into a number of bad incidents on their current road trip, including several injuries to crewmembers, technical glitches, and a bout of severe food poisoning.>>>>

"Colonel Bounloune, a Laos Peoples Army officer, has been secretly posted to Ban Huay Nam Khao refugee detention center in Thailand with the support of Thai Third Army commanders, where he has overseen the forced closing of Lao Hmong Protestant Christian and Catholic house churches as well as Hmong animist shrines," said Philip Smith, of the CPPA.>>>>

Russia's first election for a supreme shaman has provoked uproar in the community of magical healers who are revered by Siberian tribes for their ability to mediate with the spiritual world. The organizers of the Internet vote say a top shaman would serve in a similar way to the Orthodox Patriarch or Supreme Mufti and help raise the profile of Russia's ethnic tribes after their wretched treatment at the hands of the Soviet authorities.>>>>

The gym at the Viejas Reservation was soundless except for soft shrills coming from a small gap between Don Martín’s lips. For the 100 people listening, the healer’s incessant chant was occasionally engulfed by the swift whooshes coming from a two-foot condor feather being swung by the shaman’s apprentice.>>>>

SEOUL — The shrine with statues of unknown deities, the candles, lanterns and incense were all there. But somehow the lighting did not seem quite right. I was thinking more of dim red lights but found myself in a spacious room with sunlight breaking in through large windows. "Please sit down. You can place your offerings right here," .....